The
Middle West Region is the flattest but houses a great national monument,
plentiful lakes for fishing and recreation, professional sports teams, and the
Bread Basket of the United States. Twelve states make up the Middle West Region.
Sometimes those states are divided into two smaller regions – the Plains
states (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota) and the
Great Lakes states (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and
Wisconsin). All six Great Lakes states border a Great Lake.
Using
a publishing program, students will be working in groups of 3-4 to create a
newspaper, highlighting events of the Middle West.
Students
will use resources such as Internet and media materials (newspapers, textbooks,
etc.) to gather information, choose important facts and write articles dealing
with past and current events.
1.
Within
the group, members need to choose a topic to focus on. They will be responsible
for researching and writing about these events for the newspaper.
2.
Students
will self-edit articles for errors in grammar, punctuation and spelling.
3.
Students
will then rewrite the article.
4.
Teacher
will edit rewritten articles.
5.
Students
will be given a template for the newspaper.
As a group they will decide where articles need to be placed and pictures that
would be appropriate.
6.
Students
will then type the articles into the publishing program and make formatting
changes as needed.
7.
Students
will check newspaper for errors before printing.
8.
Newspapers
will be placed in school library for checkout.
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States Kids' Pages |
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Stately Knowledge |
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Postcards from America |
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Factmonster |
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States and Capitals |
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(Scroll down and look at the links on this page) |
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Books and Magazines |
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Northeast Region, Mystery State Series, The Education Center, TEC3716 |
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The States and Their Symbols, Hilltop Books, Capstone Press |
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Students
will be graded on the accuracy of the information on the articles for each
event.
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Students
will be graded using 6 Traits Writing Rubric.
The Middle West Region is considered the most conservative region in the United States. Why might the people in this region be considered more conservative than in the previous regions you’ve studied?